Re: [R-sig-Geo] rgeos and Google Summer of Code

2010-06-15 Thread Hadley Wickham
>> For some reason the r-forge pages don't show anymore how r-forge >> packages can be installed. As they always did, I didn't bother to >> remember. Could you tell us, so we can alpha test, and perhaps add this >> to the rgeos page on r-forge? (Better would be someone repaired r-forge, >> which se

Re: [R-sig-Geo] rgeos and Google Summer of Code

2010-06-15 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Edzer Pebesma wrote: > For some reason the r-forge pages don't show anymore how r-forge > packages can be installed. As they always did, I didn't bother to > remember. Could you tell us, so we can alpha test, and perhaps add this > to the rgeos page on r-forge? (B

Re: [R-sig-Geo] rgeos and Google Summer of Code

2010-06-14 Thread Edzer Pebesma
Colin, this looks very promising! For some reason the r-forge pages don't show anymore how r-forge packages can be installed. As they always did, I didn't bother to remember. Could you tell us, so we can alpha test, and perhaps add this to the rgeos page on r-forge? (Better would be someone repair

Re: [R-sig-Geo] rgeos and Google Summer of Code

2010-06-14 Thread Agustin Lobo
Excellent! Many thanks for your contribution, I'm often missing this type of functionality in current tools in R. The examples you provide in your web page are very interesting. Whenever you have time, I'd appreciate an indicative list of the high-level functionality to be expected once your wor

[R-sig-Geo] rgeos and Google Summer of Code

2010-06-13 Thread Colin Rundel
The rgeos package has been accepted as part of the Google Summer of Code and is currently under active development. Between myself and Roger Bivand we have made a good deal of progress and are very close to a point where the package will be usable (for the more adventurous). It is our goal to ha